Jon Chung said:
Amusingly, if one goes by the oft-toted 600 miles height for Mont Meru, this means you could only kill things about... A third of the way down its slopes, and nothing on the ground.
Speaking as somebody who's been around since before the Broken-Winged Crane was published, who has read RPG complaint threads, and remembers the wealth of anecdotes from the old White Wolf Boards, I'm going to put this simply: Your experience is aberrant. You got lucky. I am happy you got lucky, but lucky is what you got.
Unnatural Mental Influence.
I'd go with the fan tagline of Worm as they try to fix things, especially if they metagame: it gets worse. Let every action have a reaction and let shit snowball. Make every victory snatched from the jaws of defeat at a heavy cost
He's urging you to change the setting so it feels like a fresh story rather than a known quantity. That way, people are more likely to enjoy events as they happen, and less likely to try to metagame a solution. That's not 'screwing with the players.'
Get up there + Get this Charm + get the effective-vision-distance-increasing Awareness Charm (does one exist for Sids, BTW?) seems like a combo, even if not the most complicated one. (Lowercase-c combo, not uppercase-C, though, I have to admit.)
Anything meaningfully threatening by definition does run the risk of actually killing at least one of the PCs, usually with a non-negligible probability; so, basically, lethality. To me it seems like a contradiction - this desire to have lethality but not have it at the same time.
Ah, good old EvE-style pod-killing, even in a situation where not spending that flurry on someone more threatening could mean losing the combat.
Oh great. The mpreg city. Exactly what we need. -_-It occurs to me that I do have a serious complaint about Volivat; they make it clear that the mother still exists ("up to ten fathers... Essence of eleven parents") but it would be neater if their alchemical formula just obviated the mother entirely and their super-human champions just kind of sprang out of... yeah
Destiny has nothing to do with it. What matters is a heroic act or decision. The Exaltation weakens fate's hold over the candidate as soon as it chooses them.
Not quite accurate. Solars are exalted based on mortals who have some heroic quality, but it's not destiny. No one is fated to get a Solar Exaltation. And while a Sidereal could manipulate things to attempt to give someone a Solar Exaltation, well, there are many, many mortals, and only 150 solar Exaltations. Even if they manipulate the person so they're heroic and fate so that they're put in situations that could cause an Exaltation, the chances of them exalting are minuscule. It'd be like patiently growing a random tree in a forest in order so that the lighting will hit it. Even if if grows and survives, the chances of lightning hitting that specific tree in the forest are tiny.
And I'd guess you'd probably need to be Outside Fate yourself to pull it off.
